Baltimore City police announced Monday morning that there is a credible threat against law enforcement officers.

A police statement said: "The Criminal Intelligence Unit received credible information that members of various gangs including the Black Guerilla Family, Bloods, and Crips have entered into a partnership to 'take out' law enforcement officers."

"We want to tell the people of the city right now, of Baltimore City, that the image that they're trying to portray of the gangs in Baltimore -- The BGF, The Bloods, The Crips -- we did not make that truce to harm cops. We did not come together against the cops. We're not about to allow y'all to paint this picture of us. We got soldiers out here right now that are dirty, we dirty. They threw bombs at us to try and stop what's going on right now. Y'all are not about to do that to us ... We just want justice for Freddie Gray. We believe in that," one gang member said. "They're saying we're animals and we're acting like savages out here. I don't agree with what's going on, but I can understand what's going on. I understand why people are mad, so we got to handle things in another way."

"We've been out here all day trying to prevent people from breaking the stores, they hit us with a bomb, they burned my shirt, they ripped it and we were still standing right there but we came right back there holding hands together and we march together, we're still holding strong, and we want them to stop hurting us so we can just live our life and keep going," another gang member said.